Stupid Guest Tricks

If possible, get a wired connection. Wifi is nice for getting service easily but there's so much stuff that can cause problems with it. Power wiring, water pipes, structural metal, etc. Find someplace to plug in.

This makes me giggle.

https://youtu.be/-yLsF8VMPKE

hobie16 wrote:If possible, get a wired connection. Wifi is nice for getting service easily but there's so much stuff that can cause problems with it. Power wiring, water pipes, structural metal, etc. Find someplace to plug in.

My netbook came with some wires with plugs on the end, color-coded, but of course nothing to tell me what they are for. No cord that would allow me to plug in. I'll have to ask for one somewhere.

felinefan wrote:

hobie16 wrote:If possible, get a wired connection. Wifi is nice for getting service easily but there's so much stuff that can cause problems with it. Power wiring, water pipes, structural metal, etc. Find someplace to plug in.

My netbook came with some wires with plugs on the end, color-coded, but of course nothing to tell me what they are for. No cord that would allow me to plug in. I'll have to ask for one somewhere.

Do the connectors look like this?



If they do then you've got an ethernet cable. Good news!

Thee should be a jack on your machine that the cable can be plugged into. Now the hard part.

You've got wifi in your residence. Somewhere within it there's a router. Routers have ethernet cable jacks. Find the router and plug in. Run your upgrade program again. If wifi was the choke point then things should happen faster.

No, the ends are round and look like they might be for plugging something into, like external speakers.

I hate when things get complicated.

So, I went to the Acer site to find a recovery disk, and it says it's for machines with optical drives.

Uh, netbooks don't have drives. I'm trying to get together with one of my former roomies who has my stuff and hers in storage so I can get my external hard drive out, but it's just not happening for a variety of reasons. It's a read-only HD; will it still work?


By the way----MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!!!!

Read only should work. Nothing should need to be written to the recovery disk.

Okay, thanks. I just wish my former roomie would give me a copy of the key to the storage unit, so I can get it myself, but she says the way she has everything stacked, it could be dangerous. I've seen her pack a storage space, and tend to agree, but I still need my stuff!

It's magic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suxu1bmPm2g

Construction magic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY_w1uozitY